Investigation of primordial black hole bursts using interplanetary network gamma-ray bursts

Ukwatta, Tilan Niranjan; Hurley, Kevin; MacGibbon, Jane H.; Svinkin, D. S.; Aptekar, R. L.; Golenetskii, S. V.; Frederiks, D. D.; Pal'Shin, V. D.; Goldsten, J.; Boynton, W.; Kozyrev, A. S.; Rau, A.; von Kienlin, A.; Zhang, X.; Connaughton, V.; Yamaoka, K.; Ohno, M.; Ohmori, N.; Feroci, M.; Frontera, F.; Guidorzi, C.; Cline, T.; Gehrels, N.; Krimm, H. A.; McTiernan, J.

doi:10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/98

Title: Investigation of primordial black hole bursts using interplanetary network gamma-ray bursts

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The detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) in the solar neighborhood would have very important implications for GRB phenomenology. The leading theories for cosmological GRBs would not be able to explain such events. The final bursts of evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs), however, would be a natural explanation for local GRBs. We present a novel technique that can constrain the distance to GRBs using detections from widely separated, non-imaging spacecraft. This method can determine the actual distance to the burst if it is local. We applied this method to constrain distances to a sample of 36 short-duration GRBs detected by the Interplanetary Network (IPN) that show observational properties that are expected from PBH evaporations. These bursts have minimum possible distances in the 10¹³–10¹⁸ cm (7–10⁵ au) range, which are consistent with the expected PBH energetics and with a possible origin in the solar neighborhood, although none of the bursts can be unambiguously demonstrated to be local. Furthermore, assuming that these bursts are real PBH events, we estimate lower limits on the PBH burst evaporation rate in the solar neighborhood.

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Ukwatta, Tilan Niranjan ^[1]; Hurley, Kevin ^[2]; MacGibbon, Jane H. ^[3]; Svinkin, D. S. ^[4]; Aptekar, R. L. ^[4]; Golenetskii, S. V. ^[4]; Frederiks, D. D. ^[4]; Pal'Shin, V. D. ^[4]; Goldsten, J. ^[5]; Boynton, W. ^[6]; Kozyrev, A. S. ^[7]; Rau, A. ^[8]; von Kienlin, A. ^[8]; Zhang, X. ^[8]; Connaughton, V. ^[9]; Yamaoka, K. ^[10]; Ohno, M. ^[11]; Ohmori, N. ^[12]; Feroci, M. ^[13]; Frontera, F. ^[14] more »

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (United States)
Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)
John Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD (United States)
Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
Space Research Institute, Moscow (Russian Federation)
Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL (United States)
Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Kanagawa (Japan)
Hiroshima Univ., Hiroshima (Japan)
Univ. of Miyazaki, Miyazaki (Japan)
INAF/IAPS-Roma, Roma (Italy)
Univ. of Ferrara, Ferrara (Italy); INAF/Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna via Gobetti, Bologna (Italy)
Univ. of Ferrara, Ferrara (Italy)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (United States)
USRA/CRESST/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (United States); Univ. Space Research Assoc., Columbia, MD (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1296679

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-15-29201
Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: The Astrophysical Journal (Online)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 826; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; astronomy and astrophysics; IPN; GRB; PBH; black hole physics; methods: observational

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                    Ukwatta, Tilan Niranjan, Hurley, Kevin, MacGibbon, Jane H., Svinkin, D. S., Aptekar, R. L., Golenetskii, S. V., Frederiks, D. D., Pal'Shin, V. D., Goldsten, J., Boynton, W., Kozyrev, A. S., Rau, A., von Kienlin, A., Zhang, X., Connaughton, V., Yamaoka, K., Ohno, M., Ohmori, N., Feroci, M., Frontera, F., Guidorzi, C., Cline, T., Gehrels, N., Krimm, H. A., and McTiernan, J. Investigation of primordial black hole bursts using interplanetary network gamma-ray bursts.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
Web.  doi:10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/98.

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                    Ukwatta, Tilan Niranjan, Hurley, Kevin, MacGibbon, Jane H., Svinkin, D. S., Aptekar, R. L., Golenetskii, S. V., Frederiks, D. D., Pal'Shin, V. D., Goldsten, J., Boynton, W., Kozyrev, A. S., Rau, A., von Kienlin, A., Zhang, X., Connaughton, V., Yamaoka, K., Ohno, M., Ohmori, N., Feroci, M., Frontera, F., Guidorzi, C., Cline, T., Gehrels, N., Krimm, H. A., & McTiernan, J. Investigation of primordial black hole bursts using interplanetary network gamma-ray bursts.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/98

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                    Ukwatta, Tilan Niranjan, Hurley, Kevin, MacGibbon, Jane H., Svinkin, D. S., Aptekar, R. L., Golenetskii, S. V., Frederiks, D. D., Pal'Shin, V. D., Goldsten, J., Boynton, W., Kozyrev, A. S., Rau, A., von Kienlin, A., Zhang, X., Connaughton, V., Yamaoka, K., Ohno, M., Ohmori, N., Feroci, M., Frontera, F., Guidorzi, C., Cline, T., Gehrels, N., Krimm, H. A., and McTiernan, J. Mon .  
"Investigation of primordial black hole bursts using interplanetary network gamma-ray bursts".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/98.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1296679.

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  title        = {Investigation of primordial black hole bursts using interplanetary network gamma-ray bursts},

  author       = {Ukwatta, Tilan Niranjan and Hurley, Kevin and MacGibbon, Jane H. and Svinkin, D. S. and Aptekar, R. L. and Golenetskii, S. V. and Frederiks, D. D. and Pal'Shin, V. D. and Goldsten, J. and Boynton, W. and Kozyrev, A. S. and Rau, A. and von Kienlin, A. and Zhang, X. and Connaughton, V. and Yamaoka, K. and Ohno, M. and Ohmori, N. and Feroci, M. and Frontera, F. and Guidorzi, C. and Cline, T. and Gehrels, N. and Krimm, H. A. and McTiernan, J.},

  abstractNote = {The detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) in the solar neighborhood would have very important implications for GRB phenomenology. The leading theories for cosmological GRBs would not be able to explain such events. The final bursts of evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs), however, would be a natural explanation for local GRBs. We present a novel technique that can constrain the distance to GRBs using detections from widely separated, non-imaging spacecraft. This method can determine the actual distance to the burst if it is local. We applied this method to constrain distances to a sample of 36 short-duration GRBs detected by the Interplanetary Network (IPN) that show observational properties that are expected from PBH evaporations. These bursts have minimum possible distances in the 1013–1018 cm (7–105 au) range, which are consistent with the expected PBH energetics and with a possible origin in the solar neighborhood, although none of the bursts can be unambiguously demonstrated to be local. Furthermore, assuming that these bursts are real PBH events, we estimate lower limits on the PBH burst evaporation rate in the solar neighborhood.},

  doi          = {10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/98},

  journal      = {The Astrophysical Journal (Online)},

  number       = 1,

  volume       = 826,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016},

  month        = {Mon Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016}

}

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